Updated Award-Winning Dual-Socket Systems Maintain Single Architecture for Easy Migration and Management and Introducing New Service Designed for Dense Server Environments
Dubai, UAE - Dell has added multi-core technology to its portfolio of award-winning dual-socket servers and workstations, delivering an overall performance improvement of more than 50 percent1, while maintaining a common system image for both single- and multi-core systems. The updated servers and workstations provide customers a significant performance boost, and the investment protection of the industry's most used architecture.
In EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), companies are increasingly deploying rack-dense environments, to support this Dell has also launched the Data Centre Environment Assessment Service, a new portfolio of offerings designed to help customers effectively plan and utilise their data centres as they build more advanced technology infrastructures.
Enhanced Performance and Improved Cost Efficiencies
The dual-socket Dell PowerEdge 1850, 2800, 2850 and 1855 blade servers, along with the Dell Precision 470 and 670 workstations, will incorporate dual-core, hyper-threaded Intel Xeon processors. These new processors incorporate the same Intel E7520 chipset used in single-core Intel Xeon processors to give customers an easy migration path to multi-core computing.
Samir Joglekar, Enterprise Director, Dell EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), noted Dell's ability to it make it easier and more cost-effective for customers to deploy multi-core solutions by maintaining a consistent platform across the Dell PowerEdge server and Dell Precision workstation lines.
"Dell focused on delivering a more complete multi-core solution in our award-winning products that are built on the ecosystem of the most widely supported architecture in the world," said Joglekar. "Delivering multi-core technology based on the same Xeon architecture that runs tens of thousands of applications and more than 70 percent of today's industry-standard platforms will enable customers to get more out of their IT investments today while situating them well for future growth and performance demands."
Data Centre Environment Assessment for Effective Planning and Utilisation of the Data Centre.
The Data Centre Environment Assessment service helps customers efficiently analyse their current data centres and appropriately design for air flow and power requirements of more demanding server environments.
"As the trend shifts toward denser server environments, a new level of preparation becomes a key part of protecting and leveraging technology investments," said Okkie Esterhuizen, Director DPS, EMEA. "This service helps customers realise the full value of their server and storage systems."
The Data Centre Environment Assessment service is designed for business and institutional customers whose data centres range from small 200 square-feet to large 10,000+ square-foot environments.
More Power, Better Performance
Customers running compute-intensive applications can take advantage of the combined power of Intel Xeon multi-core processors and existing industry-standard high-performance technologies in Dell's dual-socket server and workstation platforms. Dell PowerEdge servers can run I/O-dependent messaging and database applications with performance improvements of up to 37 percent1 when combining multi-core technology with PCI Express and DDR-2 memory. Workstation customers who run business-critical applications can experience performance boosts on multi-threaded applications in such areas as CAD, digital content creation and scientific analysis.
Hyper-threading enables Intel dual-core Xeon to deliver greater efficiency for running multiple applications at once or for running multiple threads of a single application with up to four threads per socket. This meets productivity demands now while providing efficiency and scalability for the future. These systems are also a good choice for customers concerned about balancing performance demands with power consumption; the dual-core processors can increase the total performance per watt of Dell PowerEdge servers by up to 43 percent2.
Unparalleled Ease of Migration and ManagementCustomers want a migration path to multi-core technology that minimizes disruptions to operations and holds down operating costs. With Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell Precision workstations, they can get the performance benefits of the latest multi-core technology into their data centres and desktop deployments without needing to change architectures. Either single-core or dual-core processors can be installed in the Dell PowerEdge 1850, 1855, 2800, and 2850 servers and Dell Precision , but the system image remains the same and is backwards-compatible so customers can easily manage and update all of their systems with the same software image. Workstation independent software vendor certifications are not affected by the enhanced technology.
Dell's Open Manage suite of systems management software uses industry-standard management protocols to reduce data centre complexity and management costs. This includes integration with industry-leading change management software, which unifies the tools needed to update system software, operating systems (OS) and applications to one interface that customers can apply with one mouse click.
Supported by Dell Professional Services
Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell Precision workstations with Intel Xeon dual-core processors can be installed by Dell Services to help customers maximise their investment and realise a more productive and scalable enterprise environment.
Dell Professional Services can assist customers with planning and deployment with transition from single to multi-core environments. Dell's Data Centre Environment Assessment service also helps customers review data centre environment needs as more advanced technology infrastructures are built in highly dense data centre environments.
Pricing and AvailabilityThe servers will be available with factory installed Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (324/64-bit edition) and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (32/64-bit edition). The Dell PowerEdge 1850, 1855, 2800, and 2850 servers with single dual-core processors will be available in the upcoming month, starting at $2445, $2650, $2599 and $2850 respectively, excluding local Tax and delivery. Additional information is available at: www.dell.com. The entry level price for Dell Precision 470 including dual-core Intel Xeon processor starts at $2599 excluding local tax and delivery. For more information, visit www.dell.com/precision
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[1] PowerEdge Servers: Based on the SPECint_rate2000 benchmark test performed by Dell Labs in August 2005 on PowerEdge 2850, dual 2.8GHz /2MB cache dual core processors as compared to PowerEdge 2850 with dual 3.6GHz /2MB cache per processor (February 2005 SPEC submission). Both systems configured with 8GB memory, 1x36GB SCSI, Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition with Service Pack 1. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability. Dell Precision workstations: Based on the SPEC CPU2000 benchmark test performed by Dell Labs in August 2005 on the Dell Precision 670 with two dual-core 2.8 Intel Xeon, 2x 2MB L2 cache processors as compared to similarly configured Dell Precision 670 with two Intel Xeon 3.6Ghz , 2x 2MB L2 cache single core processors. Actual performance will vary based on configurations, usage and manufacturing variability. Results can be found at http://www.spec.org.
2 Performance per watt. Based on the SPECint_rate2000 benchmark test performed by Dell Labs in February 2005 on PowerEdge 1850 and 2850 systems with dual 3.6GHz single core Xeon single core processors w/2MB cache, as compared to similarly configured PowerEdge 1850 and 2850 servers with dual 2.8GHz/2MB cache dual core processors. Actual performance will vary based on configuration, usage and manufacturing variability. Results can be found at http://www.spec.org. Power consumption based on maximum capacity of power supply for both systems.
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